Extract from Ronald Reagan’s Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the University of Virginia

December 16, 1988

it’s not just students and Presidents, it is every American–indeed, every human life
ever touched by the daring idea of self-government–that Mr. Jefferson has influenced.

Ronald Reagan, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the University of Virginia,”
16 Dec. 1988. Published by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, eds., American Presidency Project (accessed 2014).